Dish mop



L. V. LUCIA Gat. 28, 1924.

DISH MOP Filed Aug. 25

Patented oa. 2s, 1924. 1,513,556

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS v. LUCIA, OE HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, assIeNoRy To THE FULLER BRUSHf COMPANY, OE HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, a CORRORATION or CONNECTICUT.

DISH MOP.

Application led August 25, 19.2.2. Serial No. 584,252.

To all whom z't may concern.: enveloping the core, and the latter, as tothe Be it known that I, LOUIS V. LUCrA,a ci'tipart containing the mopmaterial, is bent zen of the United States, and a resident of intocurved form, preferably that of a circle, Hartfordy in the county of.Hartford vand and of such size that the material completely 6 StateofiGonnecticut, have/invented new and' lills the center of this curvedpart, forming. 55 Improved Dish Mops,of which the followa mop head 7.ing is a Specification. In constructing this head I preferably Myinvention relates to the class of hand take a single piece of wire andbend itat implements used for cleaning dishes and the center back uponitself, and twistthe similar'articles, and an vobject of my inventwostrands thus formed together, the bent 60 tion, among others, is theproduction of a end forming the extreme end cf the core that device ofthisclass that shall be particularly is bentparound in proximity to or'against eicient in the results obtained by its use, the main part. Thethreads comprising'the and also that shall be extremely simple in' brushmaterial are secured to the core in l5 construction and that may beproduced at a this twisting operation, and the end is bent 65 minimumcost. V l into its Circular or other curved form pref- One form of myimproved dish mop, in erably after the threads have been secured theconstruction and use of which the Objects in place. herein Set out, aswell as others, may be at- The two Strands comprisin the core aretained, is illustrated in the accompanying preferably of the Same lengtor sfubstan` 70 drawings, in` which tially so, the ends thereof boingformed with Figure 1 is a view in front elevation of points 8. Informing these points the ends my improved dish mop. are cut away on oneside, or beveled, thus Figure 2 is a Side view of the same. forming anotch 9 between them, and this Figure 3 is a detail view partially insecconstruction is made use of in Securing the 75 tion illustrating themeans for securing the shank to the handle, and as Shown in Fig-` brushshank to the handle, the shank being ures Sand 4 of the drawings. Fromthis it shown in position just before being engaged will be seen thatwhen the shank is forced by the handle. into the hole 10 in the end ofthe handle 11,

Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 3 but the pointed ends, after theyenter the mate- 80 showing the brush shank engaged with the rial in thebottom of the hole, will be spread handle and secured thereto. apart adistance greater than the diameter My invention contemplates theconstrucof the hole, with a result that the shank will tion of a dishmop 'having a core or base 5 be secured tightly in place and againstrecomposed of wire usually embodying two moval from the handle. ,l 85Strands twisted together, and within the In accordance with theprovisions of the twists or turns of which the mop material, patentstatutes I have described the princias coarse cotton threads, is Securedin the ples of operation of my invention, together operation of twistingthe wire strands, it with the device which I now consider to repbeing mypur ose to so form this structure resent the best embodiment thereof;but I that a particu arly heavy body of said matedesire to have itunderstood that the device rial shall be so disposed as to Secure mostshown is only illustrative, and that the insatisfactory results in theuse of the mop. vention ma be carried out by other means In effectingsuch purpose the mop mateand applic to uses other than those above 45rial is secured to the core, beginning at a set out.

point some distance from one Aend, and ex- I claimtendin to the oppositeend, the uncovered 1. A structure comprising strands of wire part o? thecore comprising a shank 6. The twisted together to secure mop materialmop material projects from the core on all therebetween, the ends ofsaid Strands being sides, comprising a heavy body completely pointed andbeveledin opposite directions 100 1 socket rictionally receivin forspreading purposes,

and a handle .into

which said pointed ends are driven with the points embedded in thehandle.

2. A structure comprising strands of Wire twisted together with mopmaterial therebetween, the ends of said strands being beveled inopposite directions, and a handle having a strands with the beveledapart and entering the and with the terminal eled ends assuming a positthe diameter of the socket.

g the ends of the ends thereof spread body of the handle,

portions of the bevion greater than LOUllS V. LUCHA.

